Hydroelectric

Congo

Rosatom, Congo working on project to build 2 small HHPs with total capacity of 2.6 MW

Russia's Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Congolese government are working on a pilot project to build two small modular hydroelectric power…

Hydropower Plant

POWERGRID Successfully Commissions Transmission System for Arun-3 Nepal Hydroelectric Project

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (Powergrid) informed the stock exchanges on March 27, 2026 that it has commissioned the Transmission System for Power Ev…

India

Patel Engineering wins Rs 230.7 crore Bhutan hydro project package

Patel Engineering Limited (PEL) has received a letter of award worth Rs 230.70 crore from Dorjilung Hydro Power Limited for a pre-construction package of the 1,…

U.S. Department of Energy Awards Grant to Support Preliminary Work on Alaska Chignik Hydroelectric Project

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations provided an early grant of nearly $65,000 to the Alaska Chignik Hydroelectri…

1,200 MW Kalai-II Hydropower Project In Arunachal Pradesh Gets Central Environment Panel's Nod: Report

The 1,200 MW Kalai-II hydroelectric project on the Lohit River in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh has received the environmental clearance from a Union Envi…

Hydropower Plant

NHPC Announces Commercial Operation of First Unit at Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project

NHPC Limited has declared the commercial operation of the first generating unit, Unit-2 with a capacity of 250 MW, of the 2000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric …

Hydropower Plant

NHPC Building Eight Hydropower Projects With 8.51GW Capacity

NHPC Limited, along with its joint venture and subsidiary entities, is advancing construction on eight hydroelectric projects totaling 8.51 gigawatts in capacit…

Hydropower Plant

NHPC Synchronises Second Unit of 2000MW Subansiri Lower Hydropower Project

NHPC Limited announced on 3 December 2025 that Unit-2 (250 MW) of the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project has been successfully synchronised with the national…

Energy Storage Project

India Signs Deal With Singapore’s GSC Group for 1.5 GW Hydro Storage Project

Maharashtra state in India has entered a memorandum of understanding valued at $960 million with Singapore's GSC Group for the 1.5 GW Panchmauli-Devalipada …

Pumped Storage

Austria’s Verbund Suffers Months-Long Outage at Pumped-Storage Sites

Austrian power company Verbund (VERB.VI) announced on Thursday that its pumped storage hydroelectric plants at the Kaprun site, with a total capacity of 640 meg…

Hydropower Plant

Hull Street Energy to Acquire Michigan Hydro Fleet From Consumers Energy

Hull Street Energy has signed an agreement to acquire Consumers Energy’s 13 hydroelectric dams in Michigan, with a combined generating capacity of 132 MW.…

Dam

Ethiopia Opens Africa’s Largest Hydroelectric Dam to Egyptian Protest

Ethiopia officially inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Tuesday, marking the completion of Africa’s largest hydroelectric project. L…

Hydropower Plant

Adani Power and DGPC Seal Deal for 570MW Hydroelectric Project in Bhutan

Adani Power has signed a shareholders’ agreement with Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) to jointly develop the 570MW Wangchhu hydroelectric project in B…

Dam

France Strikes EU Deal to Unlock Hydro Investment

France has reached an agreement with the European Commission to resolve two long-standing disputes, enabling renewed investment in hydroelectric power after ove…

Hydropower Plant

EDF to Make 6 GW of Hydropower Capacity Available Under French Deal With EU

On Thursday, August 28, 2025, the French Prime Minister’s office announced that EDF, the state-owned utility, will allocate 6 gigawatts of hydroelectric c…